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2006-03-25 Europe
Don't go to Paris warning (Graphic pixs)
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Posted by tipper 2006-03-25 11:55|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Its past time to start shooting.
Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-03-25 12:02||   2006-03-25 12:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Obviously europeans arent accustomed to defending themselves as Americans are.
Posted by Chomose Thavimble3619 2006-03-25 12:07||   2006-03-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 All this because the government passed a law making it easier for companies to lay off people, and even then the law was weak, compared to other countries.

The last few months have revealed much about france. Mostly, that they live in the past, in a state of denial, and are allowing the world to shove past them.

They denied that there was any antisemitism -- clearly the horrific death of that young Jewish boy revealed the contrary

They denied that there were any disaffected, alientated groups -- the riots in the suburbs, trashing hundreds of cars, said otherwise

They denied there was growing Muslim influence -- yet they cowered when the hijab law was passed

They believed that they could be the western friend of the arab world -- yet the terror plots detected betrayed that alliance

And now, they refuse to acknowledge the realities of the worldwide marketplace demand for competitiveness, having passed both this law and one requiring no more than 35 hours in the workweek.

As a perfect example of this incredible denial (arrogance?), my own company, a multibillion dollar, global technology company, told the french government that unless they eased up the hiring laws, they would remove the european hq from paris. the french thought we were bluffing. to make a long story short, we have but a small presence in paris, no longer the EU office.

the french are DEFINITELY living in a different era. quaint, but unsustainable.
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2006-03-25 12:20||   2006-03-25 12:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, Alcatel's taking another stab and Lucent.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-03-25 12:50||   2006-03-25 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 All this, and Jacques walked out of the EU meeting because his members and other members were speaking in English! And I'm sure it wasn't just to return home.
Posted by Sherry 2006-03-25 12:53||   2006-03-25 12:53|| Front Page Top

#6 They harried the defenceless woman like a pack of wolves, oblivious to watching police and photographers
WTF - why were the cops just watching?!
Posted by Spot">Spot  2006-03-25 13:21||   2006-03-25 13:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Lucent outsourced it's development and manufacturing (mostly to China) years ago. It's not really an American company anyway.
Posted by DMFD 2006-03-25 13:23||   2006-03-25 13:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Just great, now we have to send troops to Europe. I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of quagmire in which they'll be there for years and years.
Posted by Perfessor 2006-03-25 13:58||   2006-03-25 13:58|| Front Page Top

#9 But my friend still survives at Lucent. And they just bot another company.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-03-25 14:00||   2006-03-25 14:00|| Front Page Top

#10 "WTF - why were the cops just watching?!"

Becuase during the last riots the cops that beat up some "youths" were releaved of duty suspended for abuse. So you cant really blame the cops, its a picture of what happens when your leadership is peace-love-&-happiness LLL radical panzies. Something to remember come November and all the future Novembers here in the States.
Posted by C-Low 2006-03-25 14:08||   2006-03-25 14:08|| Front Page Top

#11 From what I understand, police were told not to act proactively, the justification being the "Malik Houssekim" syndrome; that is the name of a muslim student (well integrated and supposedly on his way to converting to christianity btw), who died from being beaten by an elite anti-riot police unit, les PVM (dissolved because of that, despite their remarkable effectiveness against hit-and-run urban guerilla, its components were duos of a motorcycle combat driver and his stick-wielding passenger, often a close-combat instructor, who chased rioters even in narrow alleys).

This was in 1986, prime minister was then Jacques Chirac, and a new Malik is supposed to be one of his greatest fears.

That's why during the november Ramadan riots, the police forces were IIUC expressedly told NOT to react, and there were even cases of riots police being fired on without riposting or even chasing the shooter.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-25 14:30||   2006-03-25 14:30|| Front Page Top

#12 These are the muslim yobs again. Check the photos. Riot by proxy. France has to do something about the barbarians in their midst.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-25 14:38||   2006-03-25 14:38|| Front Page Top

#13 All the Paris parks that I visited in the seventies, are now polluted with immigrant gangs. I would only go to Paris with artillery cover.
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 14:40||   2006-03-25 14:40|| Front Page Top

#14 GET OUT JFM!! RUN!!
Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-25 14:44||   2006-03-25 14:44|| Front Page Top

#15 See after-riot images of Marc Bloch University. Their slogans are as inane as anything our moonbats can come up with.

http://marcbloch2006.skyblog.com/index.html
Marc Bloch was a Jewish Medievalist, who fought with the Resistance until he was ratted out by two-faced frogs, and murdered by Nazi occupiers. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 14:55||   2006-03-25 14:55|| Front Page Top

#16 OT : Listen To Dogs, sorry to hound you (hum...), but again, did you catch my list of french sites you might like? See comment. Hope you'll find it at least marginally interesting.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-03-25 15:00||   2006-03-25 15:00|| Front Page Top

#17 5089:
I checked some of them. I don't write off the French, because Secularism is strong there and that is the only winning weapon against the Muslim-disease. When it becomes stronger than Socialism and Dhimmism, then France will be on-line.
Posted by Listen to Dogs 2006-03-25 15:17||   2006-03-25 15:17|| Front Page Top

#18 A lot of those thugs in the pictures look like your regular soccer hooligan variety. The tell-tale sign is the track-suit pants. These track-suit thugs are a problem all over Europe, not just France. They're opportunists. They come out to riot on any occasion; destruction of property being their goal and anybody who happens to get in their way is beaten, robbed, etc.

I suspect the welfare state has something to do with it. /sarcasm
Posted by Rafael 2006-03-25 15:19||   2006-03-25 15:19|| Front Page Top

#19 There was a commercial where the moniker was "pay me now or pay me later." The same here. Either the French put a stop to it, or anarchy will reign. This country will be close to 50% Muslim in 20 years. Do the math.
Posted by Art">Art  2006-03-25 15:39||   2006-03-25 15:39|| Front Page Top

#20 LtD: The French brand of secularism, which denies that there's anything such as right or wrong, has helped _feed_ this bullshit, to perhaps a fatal degree. All the secularism in the country hasn't helped them yet.
Posted by Phil 2006-03-25 16:18||   2006-03-25 16:18|| Front Page Top

#21 A5089 - I'm not writing the French off yet either. Bring the foreign legion home for domestic policing in the immigrant ghettos. Toss any appeasement politicos. Re-establish the French ideal of internal power/justice (from a French Basque descendant, even....). Anything else is delaying the worst case
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-03-25 19:29||   2006-03-25 19:29|| Front Page Top

#22 This doesn't happen in concealed carry states.
Posted by RWV 2006-03-25 20:43||   2006-03-25 20:43|| Front Page Top

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